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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-13

EAsr LIBxsTY, Dec, u -Cs.te-.Recelpn 1916
head: shipments 1,oG5 hesd: market active and a
shade stronger than last weeks prices. Hogs-Rc.
ceipts56 head shipments 100 head market tall:
PhilRdclphial IS 4rg5 50; Yorkes IS 2Qa5 30; com,
mon 10 tAr Is l0s5 l6. aAeer-Receipts a.2c0 head
shipments 200 head: market active and l0sl6c
higher than last week 4 prires r'rlIE. '
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-13

BALrls0Rr, Nd, Dec, 12.-Whcat, western lower
and quiet: No winter red spo. $40 hid; Jan.
uary s6aS6Ac; February Ssil.asskc; May O3ka9l51c.
Corn, western lower and quiet; mixed spot 55Ta
AIRY b7Ha5711c; May &c bid. Oats lrmer aud quiet;
western whits 3Sal0c: do mixed yGa3Sc ptoyis.
ions steady with moderate demand Mess pork
Sl525. Lard, rGped S]So. Eegs drn at 2is2Gc lined
l9alSo. roaee Arm and quiet; Rio caigoes. o.di.
nary 10 fair, l75lalSkc. : -.
ToLxDo, O. Dec. 12.-whcat weak aud lower: cash
and December $50; February S5hc; May SOLO.
Torn steady: May So Oats qulet cash $50. Glover.
secd steady; cash 81 O5; February 81 70; March
Si27h. NfH I ~ -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-13

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-13

REAi!TIEH Shropshire, Ok. and Cot.. sHEEp.
vttult Lo Jersey Reds and Bcrkshire HOGS.
z. Rocks and u. Ieghorn Chickens, BRONZE
Tnrkcys. Eggs and CARP In season. ENG YES,
Mills, Il. Prs. &c, best ind cheapest; part pay In
lumber. satisfaction guaranteed on ali.
Gil nc TO cent book ior so cents and names
o!sUo and address OF twenty Wide awake Fam.
ers Send stamp for Circulars to = - =
T. Z. CARSKADON, H.
no2SW EeyBer, W, Va
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-13
ILLOGICAL CONCLUSION,

You say that tho amendment will be in
danger "ot becoming by.word and a re.
proach" il 1t be- adopted "belore a party
can be Organised for It's enforcement.
And you charge that neither OF tho "old
.parties'' will either pass or execute laws
for tho enforcement Of the amendment II
adopted, conceding at the same time that
your NEW and better party" is not yet
strong enough for this purpose. The only
legitimate conclusion. therefore, which
Gan be drawn from what you say is, that
you don't want tho amendment adopted
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-13

U1NcInaArl, o.. Dec. 12-Flour easier; family
50 35AS IS; fancy e. 75ad IS Wheat easier; No ,
red $50: receipts 1850. bushels: shipments none
Corn lower; No mixed 531ss54c. Oats easier: No.
2 mixed siaStHc Rye tlrmer: No. q 7lkc. PORK
7 Soa74 c. Bulk mesp strong; short ribs 7.S7I<c.
Bacon trmi short Gear 90. Whisky steady; s4f,S
Of rs barrels OF finished goods on bas OF 81 O3
Butter quiet; fancy creamery $50; extra Ohio 3Oc;
choice dairy 1!a2;c. sugar steady; hard lctin.
7AaSc: new Orleans 4ss4s5Hc Lggs barely steady
at 20a2lc. Cheese In moderate demand; primo 10
choice nat, regular make, 1lal2c E - ,-ta'-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
An agricultural journal in ENGLAND

An agricultural journal in England
announces that the number of farms
which will be vacated in all parts of
the country at Michaelmas sis entirely
without precedent" Many farms
which have been occupied by success
i've members of the same families for
generations are to be given up, as the
tenants find that they can only con-
tinue farming at ruinous loss.
The wheat crop in France is consid-
cred satisfactory, the deficiency on
light lands being amply covered by
the yield of the heavy lands. The to-
tai is estimated at 10, 000 900 hectolit-
ers, as compared with los, 900, 900 last
year, and the average weight of II Kill
ograms in lieu Of IS last year. The
yield of flour will thus be 10000, 900
metric quintals, against 100000 in
1886.
1t is now stated that blue-joint grass
will grow luxuriantiy on the great
plains and mountain sites of Nevada,
where little vegetation, except sage
brush, has been produced. 1t is also
said that wild peas will grow there,
and that the vines are readily eaten by
all kinds of stock. In places that can
be irrigated a few months in the year,
two or three crops of alfalfa can be
raised.
Mr.. G. Menalas, of Savannah, Ca,
has turned his immense cotton planta-
ton near Brookhaven, Miss, into a
stock and dairy farm, and proposes to
produce milk and butter cheaper than
any dairy district IN the north and
west. He will have a dairy depot at
the railroad, with a large refrigerator,
and it is evident that his energy and
success will start similar needed enter
priseS in the State where he lives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
Lemon Juice.

There is said to be no better medi-
cine for persons who are troubled with
bilious and liver complaints than lem
on juice. 1t exciteS the liver, stimu-
lates the digestive organs, and tones
up the system generally. It is men
toned as cure for sick headache, the
Juice of half lemon being put in a
glass of water, without sugar. Lemon
juice and sugar, mixed very thick, is
useful to relieve coughs and sore
throats. Lemonade is not only lux
ury, but it is wholesome, and is a good
temperance drink. Ii the hands are
stained, there is nothing that will re-
move the stain better than lemon, or
lemon and salt.
A correspondent writes that he had
long been troubled with an inactive
liver, which gave him world of pain
and trouble, until he was advised to
take q glass of hot water with the Juice
OF hat lemon squeezed into it, but
without sugar, night and morning.
He tried it, and found himself better
almost Immediately. His daily head
aches, which medicine had failed to
cure, left him; his appetite improved,
and he gained several pounds in
weight within a few weeks Good
HOusekeeDlnQ.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
a Sea CULTS Strategen.

81 had a very singular experience
last Sunday" said a tradesman, whose
shop in Oakland is adorned by the
sign, 'Ornithological Rarities," but
who on pinch would sell dog or
rabbit 81 was walking on the beach,
not very far from the Cliff house, and
| had just noticed that an unusually
large number of sea gulls were flying
over the sands, when hard substance
struck me. Luckily my hat was very
thick, and am blessed with a toler-
ably solid skull. So [ soon recovered
myself; and | was looking about to
ascertain what had hit me, when [ was
greatly startled by weird and ghost
ly fiuttering of wings foot above me-
A great gray gull had narrowly es-
capped alighting upon my shoulders.
He just succeeded in checking his i'm
petuous descent as his feet almost
touched me. With a queer kind of
half-frightened cry he was again into
the air. But what had brought him so
close to me? / soon found out. Ly-
ing on the sand was the thing that had
given me the How upon the head. It
was large black mussel, and the sea-
gull had dropped it from dizzy
height upon my unoffending scalp.
| have studied the habits of these birds
pretty carefully, and | knew very we'll
why he had done it. He was irving
to get at his dinner, and as the she'll Of
the mussel was still unbroken and |
wished to see him try again | walked
couple of hundred yards away and
then turned to watch his movements.
Seeing that the coast was clear he
quickly flew back to the place where
the muSsel had fallen, seized it in his
beak. and again rising high into the
air, he let it drop. He followed it
closely as it fell, keeping almost be-
side it during the greater part of the
descent, and only moderating his
downward rush when he was in dam
ger of dashing himself upon the beach.
The mussel struck the sand, but the
shell was still unbroken, and, indeed,
it was very evident to me that the soft
ground that received it would never
lay it open. Then / flung the mussel
to distance, and the gull, seeming to
take this as hint that my head was
not chopping block, seized his
troublesome delicacy and flew away.
| saw him turn little inland, rise
once more to a great height; dart
swiftly down and then wing his way
out to sea. I found that many stones
lay at the place of his last descent; SO,
doubtless, his perseverance was at
length rewarded, and he had gone of
to some lonely rock to dine. San
francisco Examiner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
HINTS TO BUTTER MAKERS.

A large quantity Of early-made dairy
butter has poor keeping qualities and
is forced off rapidly by commission
merchants and dealers as received in
city markets. Much of this butter is
poor in character and flavor, oily,
smoky and badly made. During early
spring, especially at the time Of the
shedding of hair. cows are naturally
weak, and somewhat out of condition.
At this time especially they need good
nourishing food, the best Of hay and
Indian meal. Above all things laxa-
tive food should be avoided at this
period, increasing as it must the weak
condition of the animal At no time
in the year do COWS need greater care
OF better food than in the spring
months. Poor, coarse fodder, if it
must be used in feeding milch cows,
should be fed out when the appetite is
the sharpest, in the cold, bracing and
invigorating weather of the winter.
The best butter, with an aroma like
a nosegay of flowers, and flavor sat
isfying to the most fustidioHs taste,
can never be made from the milk of
any animal that is not well fed. No
gilt-edge butter retails in this market
which is not, produced where grain is
added to the daily ration of tue COW.
A boiler cannot make steam without
an abundance of fuel; neither can q
COW yield milk rich in butter product
without an abundant supply of nutrit-
ious food. Carelessness and lack of
proper facilities stand for much Of the
inferior butter. Many tub of dairy
butter with a smoky taste shows that
the milk was heated during cold
weather, on the kitchen stove, where
the green wood, the misplaced cover
or damper, the scorched milk care
lessly spilled on the stove, have per-
mitted the absorption of the smoky
flavor by the milk, thus reducing its
market value by several cents per
mound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
Watches For Blind People.

''This is one of the cutest things in
the watch line that has yet appeared"
said Jeweler Charles S. Crossman,
holding up one of the new Swiss
watches designed for the use of the
blind. 1.-The old raised figure watches
were clumsy and blind people were
constantly bending or breaking the
watch hands by touching them. In
this watch small peg is set in the
center of each figure. When the hour
hand is approaching a certain hour
the peg for that hour drops when the
quarter before it is passed. The per-
son feels the peg is down, and then
counts back to twelve. He can thus
tell the time within a few minutes,
and by practice he can become SO
expert as to tell the time almost
exactly. They have been in use about
SIX months and there is a steady and
growing demand for them. "-NeU
York EUeaiag Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
BUTTER AND oLEoMARcARINE.

The following is quoted from Pro-
fessor Atwaters article on THE Diges-
tibility of Food" in the Century:
"Much has been said and written
about the relative digestibility of
butter and oleomargarine. The only
actual comparative tests on record are
a series made with man and a boy
by Professor Mayer, in Holland. In
these from 97.7 to 9S.4 per cent. of the
fat of the butter and from &C., to &C. &
per cent. of the fat of the oleomar-
garine were digested. The average
difference was 1.6 per cent, in favor OF
the butter. Certain possible sources
OF error in such experiments make it
a question whether the digestion was
not IN fact more nearly complete than
even these figures make it. An inter-
esting series of experiments in arti-
fetal digestion conducted by Dr. r.
d. Clark, IN behalf of the New York
Dairy Commission, though of course
not atfording a definite measure of the
process as it actually goes on in the
body, accords with the very natural
supposition that, in ease, and perhaps
in completeness of digestion, oleomar-
garine would rank between butter and
the fat of ordinary meat.
'In chemical composition oleomar-
garine stands between meat-fat and
butter. 1t will be remembered that
oleomargarine is made from beef-fat
and lard by removing from them part
of the stearin, which counts as the
least digestible ingredient, and adding
4 little butter and sometimes oil, as
cotton-seed oil. The bulk of all these
fatty substances, meat-fat, butter, and
oil, consists of the same or nearly the
same kinds of fat, the meat-fat having
the more stearin. The butter, how
ever, contains small quantities, seven
per cent. or Whereabouts, of peculiar
fats, butyrin, caproin, etc., which give
it its flavor and which are thought by
some to make it more easily digestible,
especially by persons whose digestion
is enfeebled by lack of digestive juices
or otherwise.
I'm the excitement over oleomar-
garine legislation, the discussion OF
the relative digestibility of butter and
butter substitutes has been made very
active by the Importance of its bear
ing upon their comparative values for
nutriment, and many statements have
been made as to the effect of the chem
zeal composition of the peculiar but
ter-fats and the consequent chemical
changes in the process of digestion
and assimilation in the body. 1t is
interesting to compare the very posi-
tive differences which some writers
upon the subject draw from expert
mental Investigations, with the very
guarded expressions of opinion made
by the authors of the same investiga
tons in their writings and in persona
conversation, The :~rts at hand anc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
TWO nnecuoJes OF 4nacReray.

''When, soon after our marriage,
Mr.. Brookfeld introduced his early
college friend, Mr.. Thackeray to
me. he brought him one day unex-
pectedly to dine with us. There was,
fortunately, good plain dinner, but
was young and shy enough to feel
embarrassed because we had no
sweets, and privately sent my maid
to the nearest confectioner' to buy a
dish of tartlets, which thought would
give a finish to our simple meal.
When they were placed before me,
timidly offered our guest small one,
saying: ''Will you have tartlet, Mr..
Thackeray?" I will, but I'll have a
tWo-penny one. if you please he an
swered, so beamingly, that we al
laughed, and my shyness disappeared.
''On another occasion, also very
early in my friendship With Mr..
Thackeray, he was at our house one
evening with a few other intimate
friends when the conversation turned
Oh court circulars, and their sameness
day after day. A few samples were
given: .So-and-so had the honor of
joining her majesty's dinner-party
with other lofty and imposing person
ages, invariably ending with DR.. Pre-
terIus. By the way, who is DR.. Pre-
torius? somebody asked. A slight
pause ensued, when voice began sol
EMMY chanting the national anthem,
ending each verse with:
GOD save our gracious queen,
Re SEND her VICTORIOUS, happy and glorious,
Dr. PretorIus-God save the queen.
This was Mr.. Thackeray, who had
been sitting perfectly silent and rather
apart from those who were talking,
and had not appeared to notice what
was said. -Scri6ner's Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20

The city of Knoxville, Tenn, with
out thirteen negative votes in popu-
.ation OF $4,000. voted to subscribe
so30. 900 for railroad construction, one
line being the Knoxville Southern. to
pc built from Knoxville to Atlanta.
end the other, the Powelrs VALLEY
Railroad, to be built through Cumber-
Flnd Gap. to connect with the Louis
Pile and Nashville, Norfolk and West
IN and other roads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20

1.-The perfectly healthy and active
man" says John E. Burton, the Wis
consin iron capitalist, ''sl.ould weigh
two and quarter pounds for every
inch of his height. This rule will test
q man 80 times in every 100,'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20

The flag that foated over the
Marshall house in Alexandria, Va, in
1861, and was indirectly the cause of
the death of Jackson and Ellsworth, is
now in the state capital at Albany.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20

DR.. Alfred of Ocala, Fla, has copy
of the Baltimore AdUertiser and Jour
nal dated August %, 1775. In it is
graphic land advertisement by
George Washington, offering 10000
acres of the finest and richest land in
the world and situated in the Kanaw-
ha Valley, w. Va.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
Che general impression or spec1al

the general impression or speclaf
students of these subjects, so far as
have observed, are to the effect that
probably, for healthy persons, the
difference between butter and oleo-
margarine in ease and in completeness
of digestion would be at most very
slight, but that for people with en-
feebled digestion and for infants, but
ter may, perhaps, at times, have the
advantage"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
TESTING A GREAT LENS.

In 1882 / called to see Alvin Clark,
the distinguished constructor of teles-
copes. who has Just died. writes Rob.
ert Michel in the New York Sam ]
found him at his home in Cambridge,
Mass. His sons were busy putting the
finishing touches to the great telescope
object glass then being made for the
Russian Astronomical Observatory at
Pulkova. The Pulkova objective was
to be placed in temporary mounting
that very evening to be tested for the
first time on celestial objects.
1 found Mr.. Clark a genial, intelli-
gent old man, who had relinquished
all manual labor in the business, but
was still hale and hearty. and person
ally directed the work. He told iae of
his visits to England and his interviews
with Sir John Herschel and with Lord
Ross, who built the great reflector in
irolana. In an upper story | found
the Rochester telescope. made for Pro
fessor Lewis Swift, the cost of which
was paid by Mr.. Warner, of the same
city. This objective was sixteen in
ches in diameter. One of the sons
showed the workshops and explained
their methods The operation of
grinding these object glasses was car
ried on in the basement, and it APP
peared to be very simple matter in
its earlier stages. An assistant was
rubbing with both hands a disc of
glass about eight inches in diameter
upon prepared surface covered with
red polishing material. The work
seemed very monotonous. Mr. Clark
ho+ Of
gence could grind lens, and he
showed me one that had been sent to
him by an amateur. Alvan G.. Clark
said it was a very creditable perform
ance.
1t is the after correction and per-
fecting of the objective which calls for
the special skill which has made Alvan
Clark's name so famous. The large
detectives, such as Pulkova and Lick
glasses, are ground and polished by
machinery. Two levers work in OPP
posite directions, and are SO arranged
that any part of the glass surface may
be reached, doing the work The
final polish, which is of the most deli
cate nature imaginable, is done with
the surface of the hand. Mr.. Clark
went so far as to say that one revo-
luton of the hand in excess would
change the correction.
On table was the finished Pulkova
lens which weighed $50 pounds, and
consisted of two lenses, each thirty
inches in diameter. Generally these
lenses are made to accurately fit, and
are joined togethek with Canada bal
sam, but in such large glasses as the
Pulkova and the Lick, they are fitted
in a metal frame with an adjustment
so that they can be made to approach
each other, or otherwise. If a single
lens were used, the object Inspected
would be fringed with various artif-
cial colors and other defects due to
spherical alteration, but by the simple
artifice of using two kinds of glass
these defects are cured to great ex-
tent and nearly perfect image is Sc
The Delta independent., 1887-02-01

In the United States Senate, during a re
cent debate, Senator Vest, of Missouri,
paid high tribute to the merits of St Ja-
cobs Oil. Other prominent men have also
found it prompt in its cure of rheumatism
and neuralgia. Price, fifty cents bottle.
Peter Hensen has been in the San Luis
valley twenty-five years. He has devoted
his time principally to stock raising, al
though he has diminished his large herd in
numbers as fast as he could find market
for them. Heis still the possessor of 700
head of cattle and about ninety head of
horses. He generally puts up about five
hundred tons of hay for his cattle, while
his equine stock rustic through the winter
months. Mr.. Henson proposes to reduce
his herd in number to about 300 head and
then build sheds and look out for their
comfort, ETC., during the winter months.
He also intends turning his attention to
the Improvement of his stock with the
Pole-Angus. He thinks stock raising in
the valley can be made more profitable by
having small herds and taking proper care
of them, both winter and summer-Ala-
mosa Sentinel.
A drummer gives it as his opinion that
the chickens of which they make pies in
most hotels are hatched from hard-boiled
eggs.
The Delta independent., 1887-02-01
The Hons keepers Complaint.

81 am discouraged I have too much to
do. l am tired. | am sick. | suppose was
put into this house to keep it clean, but il is
too much work. / won't try. | will 20 to
sleep. l. don't care what becomes of the
house."
The above is an alegory. The discour-
aged houselieeper is the liver, which, in
deed, is often called ''the hou,ekeeper of
our health" If it does go to sleep as II
threatened. a crowd of Diseases are all ready
to spring mp as n consequence. Dr. Pierce 5
Golden Medical Discovery acts upon the
liver and assists it In its work of ho1sekeep-
ing and house-cleaning. 1t is the great liver
remedy and blood cleanser. and cIlres all
the long train of chronic maladies re sulting
from torpid or sluggish, sie,py live-, such
as sick-headache, scrOtulous diseases. as nj
GERS. ''fever-sores, "white swellings," bip-
joint disease. consumption of the f,u rs
(Which is really only scrofula manifesS ng
itself in the delicate tissues of these or
gansl. also all skin diseases, as blOtch es,
pimples and eruptions, and all blood tain IS,
however acquired.